Techniques for metal gate workfunction engineering to enable multiple threshold voltage FINFET devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8669167
APP PUB NO 20140065802A1
SERIAL NO

13596687

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Techniques are provided for gate work function engineering in FIN FET devices using a work function setting material an amount of which is provided proportional to fin pitch. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a FIN FET device includes the following steps. A SOI wafer having a SOI layer over a BOX is provided. An oxide layer is formed over the SOI layer. A plurality of fins is patterned in the SOI layer and the oxide layer. An interfacial oxide is formed on the fins. A conformal gate dielectric layer, a conformal gate metal layer and a conformal work function setting material layer are deposited on the fins. A volume of the conformal gate metal layer and a volume of the conformal work function setting material layer deposited over the fins is proportional to a pitch of the fins. A FIN FET device is also provided.

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Chang, Josephine B Mahopac, US 263 5099
Lauer, Isaac Yorktown Heights, US 218 1836
Lin, Chung-Hsun White Plains, US 170 2385
Sleight, Jeffrey W Ridgefield, US 297 5098

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